However, many journalists doubt this conclusion because the reporter’s body was found alongside the corpse of Ernesto Ruiz Guillen, a union leader whose kidnapping Jiménez de la Cruz had covered before disappearing.

“There has to be a serious investigation because he often looked into disappearances, crimes and kidnappings," said journalist Gregorio Hernández to the AP.

The official account of events provided by the authorities also worried several international organizations who asked them not to stop investigating the killing and its possible connection to the reporter’s journalistic work.